Crude Oil Quality Field Specialist

2 weeks ago


Drayton Valley, Canada SECURE Full time

**About Us**

SECURE is a leading Waste Management and Energy Infrastructure business headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Our extensive infrastructure network located throughout western Canada and North Dakota includes Waste Management Facilities, Industrial Landfills, Pipeline Operations, Metals & Mining, and Specialty Chemicals, Energy Infrastructure include Blending & Facility Supply and Trading & Storage.

Our number one goal every day is to go home safe. Like our values state, working the SECURE way starts with working safely. Safety is the cornerstone of our culture, because if we are not safe, nothing else matters.

**Your Opportunity at SECURE Energy**

As our Crude Oil Quality Field Specialist, you will ensure the continuation of the Quality Compliance Program (QCP) while working in a fast-paced environment to safely handle and optimize our facilities' inbound and outbound crude streams to mitigate commercial risk at the field level.

**The Team**

The team is dynamic and focused on maintaining high standards of quality compliance in a fast-paced environment. This plays a crucial role in enhancing facility operations.

**Work Environment**

This position will be Monday through Friday, with the potential to be on call for after-hours troubleshooting or problem-solving.

**A Day in The Life**

The responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

- Act as a point of contact for Secure Energy’s Quality programs (QCP).
- This includes facility training and additional build of QCP chapters to continuously improve the program for Secure Energy Field Operations.
- Assist the MQOPS team in developing and ensuring that standard operating procedures (SOPs) are implemented in accordance with the SES QCP and applicable ASTM methods for field staff.
- Act as a Commercial Blend Champion focusing on high-performance Diluent utilization to maximize injection ratios set by Crude Oil Marketing.
- Act as the operation’s Quality Specialist responsible for mentoring Facility Quality Champions/Operations and Ops support personnel regarding high performance blending and QCP knowledge.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards pertaining to all measuring devices and product quality assurance of pipeline systems.
- Act as a field champion to roll out and further develop the newly created Blending SOP’s and train as required for Midstream Infrastructure mindset.
- Complete and perform key maintenance on critical quality analytics devices, document and report findings for the manager to review.
- Act as the field liaison for commercial blend plans for operations to assist them to maximize profit models.
- Assist in all field measurement audits; review data from offloads to help facilities balance properly and maintain customer relationships and report any issues to the SR. Manager.
- Assist in training and JTO’s for operations field testing/scheduling and completion of all field-based analysis while working within the PQM system.
- Field Auditing and training required when Necessary.
- Assist, validate, and respond to field level infractions by working with operations to change and mitigate quality blend plans based off Sr. Quality Specialist recommendations.
- Assist in investigations regarding quality related incidents to determine root cause and ensure that all work is completed in a timely fashion.
- Assist operations with third party customer training programs.
- Assist in reporting and maintaining:

- Diluent usage vs blend plans
- Over/short on C4 utilization
- TVP testing resolution
- Density goals and shortfalls
- Sulphur goals and shortfalls
- Waste oil volume tracking and reporting

**Skills, Experience, & Qualifications**

The individual in this role will have:

- 3-5 years of previous experience working within the Oil & Gas industry.
- Knowledge of ASTM related standards for quality determination and testing methods.
- Knowledge of sampling systems, API 8.2 knowledge required.
- Knowledge of Lab set up and workflow requirements required.
- Strong understanding of crude oil chemistry and ASTM hydrocarbon test methods required.
- Direct Experience with Crude oil quality determinations considered an asset.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point).
- Ability to interface with multiple facility managers, perform audit functions, and able to build reports based off findings.
- Strong ability to build working relationships, customer service oriented, and able to build contacts within the organization, as well as with external regulators, vendors, and contractors.
- Ability to influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies, and practices. Teach understanding through use of multiple platforms so the targets can be achieved.
- Must be willing to travel, work flexible hours, and be on call to respond to infractions when they occur.
- Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure while adhering to strict deadlines is critical.
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